[Isaiah’s Job; The Atlantic Monthly (June 1936) (Part 2)]
A prophet of the Remnant will not grow purse-proud on the financial returns from his work, nor is it likely that he will get any great renown out of it. Isaiah’s case was exceptional to this second rule, and there are others, but not many.
In any given society the Remnant are always so largely an unknown quantity.
An assignment that you can really put your back into, and do your best without thinking about results, is a real job; whereas serving the masses is at best only half a job, considering the inexorable conditions that the masses impose upon their servants.
You do not know, and will never know, who the Remnant are, nor what they are doing or will do.
Albert Jay Nock